Mysteriously, qualified applicants were suddenly ruled ineligible in the FAA hiring process. Turns out that administrators in the FAA were gaming the system to get more diverse applicants in, even helping some applicants pass tests…
Topic: academia
Rutgers Faculty Opposes “Academic Inquiry”
Academics generally resist most attempts to invade their sanctum. Nevertheless, although they may share an elastic definition of “scholarship,” they do make legitimate points about arbitrary efforts to solve the often real crises in higher…
Former Amherst College Lecturer Accuses Supervisor of Trying to Coerce Her to Sleep with Students to Increase Enrollment
It really sounds like a dispute over her firing as a lecturer at the college and declining enrollment in their Spanish courses, but we’ll see how the lawsuit plays out.
Questioning Academic Authority on Guns
Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase “question authority.” “The president’s ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the desirability of ‘common-sense gun safety laws,’ is echoed widely with every new mass shooting, from…
USC Professor: White Men Can’t Police Their Imagination, Leads to Black Mens’ Deaths
Claudia Rankine, an English professor at the University of Southern California, was interviewed on one of her poems where she highlights racism in white male minds.
American University Pushes Sororities to Blacklist Fraternities which are being Investigated
The College Fix has more on this: It’s no secret that colleges are itching to punish fraternities for the slightest allegation of a violation, and now those under official disapproval at American University will suffer…
Still Halloween at Yale
Academics are still using the Halloween costume controversy at Yale as a teachable moment. One wonders what they will learn. “A white Ivy League lecturer has resigned following an uproar over an email she sent…
Missouri Lawmakers Call for Mizzou Professor Melissa Click’s Firing
She was the professor who asked for ‘muscle’ to remove a student reporter from the quad on campus during a demonstration, which video went viral and resulted in Click losing her courtesy appointment in the…
Alabama is Drug Testing On-Campus College Fraternities
Via Campus Reform: The University of Alabama (UA) has allegedly been testing on-campus fraternity brothers on a “quiet” basis, according to AL.com. Starting at the beginning of this past academic year, the University of Alabama…
St. Louis University Mandates Every Department to Identify Actions to Make It More Inclusive
Sounds like an onerous exercise in academia: Every academic department at Saint Louis University has been mandated to “hold a discussion and identify at least one action its members” will take to make the university…